{"id":16567,"date":"2015-08-21T15:46:47","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T22:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/kid-gets-awesome-new-bionic-hand-reminds-us-not-everything-is-garbage"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:46:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:46:45","slug":"kid-gets-awesome-new-bionic-hand-reminds-us-not-everything-is-garbage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/kid-gets-awesome-new-bionic-hand-reminds-us-not-everything-is-garbage","title":{"rendered":"Kid Gets Awesome New Bionic Hand, Reminds Us Not Everything is Garbage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fAq7n2k5FkA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The stock market is tanking, North and South Korea are on the brink of war, and a cartoon character from a dystopian future is the most popular candidate for US President at the moment. But don\u2019t despair. While most things are garbage, there are some things in the world that aren\u2019t. Like this adorable kid who just got his own high-tech bionic hand.<\/p>\n<p>Nine-year-old Josh Cathcart was often bullied in school for having just one hand. But he\u2019s about to become the coolest kid in school, thanks to his new i-limb, developed by a company called Touch Bionics. The hand can be programmed via an iPad app.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI made myself a bagel yesterday. I can open bottles and packets with it. I can stack up blocks, I can build Lego with it and I can pull my trousers up,\u201d he told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2015\/aug\/21\/josh-cathcart-prosthetic-hand-i-limb-quantum\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a>. While he\u2019s not the youngest to ever get a bionic hand, he\u2019s the youngest that this company has fitted the device for. He\u2019ll grow out of it in about a year and need a new one, and his parents have started fundraising to pay for it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/kid-gets-awesome-new-bionic-hand-reminds-us-not-everyt-1725697358\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stock market is tanking, North and South Korea are on the brink of war, and a cartoon character from a dystopian future is the most popular candidate for US President at the moment. But don\u2019t despair. While most things are garbage, there are some things in the world that aren\u2019t. Like this adorable kid [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64401,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16567\/revisions\/64401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}